At school today, they announced that student government elections are coming up. To be honest with you, I've never had any interest in student government. But when I started thinking about it, I realized getting elected Treasurer could totally change my situation at school. Nobody ever thinks about running for Treasurer, because all anyone ever cares about are the big- ticket positions like President ang Vice President. So I figure if I sign up tomorrow, the Treasurer job is pretty much mine for the taking. Today, I went and put my name on the list to run for Treasurer. Unfortunately, this kid named Marty Porter is running for Treasurer, too, and he's real brainy at math. So this might not be as easy as I thought. I told Dad that I was running for student government, and he seemed pretty excited. lt turns out he ran for student government when he was my age, and he actually won. Dad dug through some old boxes in the basement and found one of his campaign posters. I thought the poster idea was pretty good, so l asked Dad to drive me to the store to get some supplies l loaded up on poster board and markers, and I spent the rest of the night making all my campaign stuff. So let's just hope these posters work.

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well sleep in or whatever Please help yourselves to tea or coffee or whatever at all He will go anywhere at all to get a job Did you find out anything at all? smack considerate/kən'sɪdərət/ it is considerate of sb (to do sth) It was very considerate of him to wait She is always polite and considerate towards her employees vroom/vruː m/ head It's about time we were heading home Where are you guys headed? technically Technically (speaking),the two countries are still at war. It is still technically possible for them to win (= but it seems unlikely). but that is definitely subject to change 易患 if someone/something is subject to something, especially something bad All flights are subject to delay Prices are subject to change avoid to stay away from someone or something, or not use something Why did you speak to him? You usually avoid him like the plague come up One of the teachers came up and started talking to me come over if someone comes over, they visit you at your house Do you want to come over on Friday evening? noogie a billion times neighborhood gimmick a promotional/publicity/sales gimmick Thermos θɜ:məs Thermos be some way to tickle your funny bone take sb under your wing the tricks Rodrick pulls on me/play a trick on someone a person of high/average/low intelligence

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The deal was, plunk your stuff down stopped that from happeningat the last second It stinks of smoke in here. a whole lot more complicated scratching their heads get any credit for scrambling for the other spots Like I said getting his braces all this popularity stuff goes in one ear and out the other sneak off to go somewhere secretly and quietly in order to avoid being seen or heard I sneaked up the stairs She snuck out of the house once her parents were asleep. sure enough used to say that sth happened as expected I said he'd forget , and sure enough he did. blacktop or something Are you crazy or something? moldy(美式)或mouldy(英式) Strawberries go mouldy very quickly. nasty What's that nasty smell?那是什么难闻的气味？ a market stall selling cheap and nasty watches卖廉价而难看的手表的集市摊位 thi它表示用于讲述、讲笑话时第一次提到某个人或物 I met this really weird guy last night. I've been getting these pains in my chest. end up(sth/doing sth)意为最终成为；最后处于 to find yourself in a place or situation that you did not intend or expect to be in I ended up doing all the work myself. f you go on like this you'll end up in prison. If he carries on driving like that, he'll end up dead. get off to a good / bad etc start The day got off to a bad start when I missed the train into一词在文中意为在; 直到（某个时间 She carried on working late into the night. He didn't get married until he was well into his forties. shoot 感叹词，在做了蠢事或事情出了差错感到懊恼 Shoot! I've forgotten my book! fall for sth I'm surprised you fell for that trick. racket a tennis/badminton racket They were making such a racket outside that I couldn't get to sleep. Cheerios是英国生产的很有名的、圆环状的一种麦片。 figure out If I have a map, I can figure it out. Don't worry, we'll figure something out (=find a way to solve the problem). chew sb out He got chewed out by the boss for lying. tag along(behind/with sb)tag本意为标签(n.)或者贴标签(v.)，tag along Would you mind if I tagged along with you？ cover (up) your tracks He tried to cover his tracks by burning all the documents to this day是一个固定词组，意为至今(up to now)。 You've got to have a loose screw to think that's a good idea. = You've got to have a few loose screws to think that's a good idea. have a screw loose/have a loose screw

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Today is the first day of school, and right now we’re just waiting around for the teacher to hurry up and finish the seating chart. So I figured I might as well write in this book to pass the time. By the way, let me give you some good advice. On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk and the next thing you know the teacher is saying— So in this class, I got stuck with Chris Hosey in front of me and Lionel James in back of me. Jason Brill came in late and almost sat to my right, but luckily I stopped that from happening at the last second. Next period, I should just sit in the middle of a bunch of hot girls as soon as I step in the room. But I guess if I do that, it just proves I didn’t learn anything from last year. Man, I don’t know WHAT is up with girls these days. It used to be a whole lot simpler back in elementary school. The deal was, if you were the fastest runner in your class, you got all the girls. And in the fifth grade, the fastest runner was Ronnie McCoy. Nowadays, it’s a whole lot more complicated. Now it’s about the kind of clothes you wear or how rich you are or if you have a cute butt or whatever. And kids like Ronnie McCoy are /scratching/ their heads wondering what the heck happened. The most popular boy in my grade is Bryce Anderson. The thing that really /stinks/ is that I have ALWAYS been into girls, but kids like Bryce have only come around in the last couple of years. I remember how Bryce used to act back in elementary school. But of course now I don’t get any credit for sticking with the girls all this time. Like I said, Bryce is the most popular kid in our grade, so that leaves all the rest of us guys /scrambling/ for the other spots. The best I can figure is that I’m somewhere around 52nd or 53rd most popular this year. But the good news is that I’m about to move up one spot because Charlie Davies is above me, and he’s getting his braces next week. I try to explain all this popularity stuff to my friend Rowley (who is probably hovering right around the 150 mark, by the way), but I think it just goes in one ear and out the other with him.

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SEPTEMBER Tuesday First of all, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn’t say “diary” on it. Great. All I need is for some jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wrong idea. The other thing I want to clear up right away is that this was MOM’s idea, not mine. But if she thinks I’m going to write down my“feelings” in here or whatever, she’s crazy. So just don’t expect me to be all “Dear Diary” this and “Dear Diary” that. The only reason I agreed to do this at all is because I figure later on when I’m rich and famous, I’ll have better things to do than answer people’s stupid questions all day long. So this book is gonna come in handy. Like I said, I’ll be famous one day, but for now I’m stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons. Let me just say for the record that I think middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. You got kids like me who haven’t hit their growth spurt yet mixed in with these gorillas who need to shave twice a day. And then they wonder why bullying is such a big problem in middle school. If it was up to me, grade levels would be based on height, not age. But then again, I guess that would mean kids like Chirag Gupta would still be in the first grade.

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